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NYSExam Vocab List 2
Stimulus/Response
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stimulus/Stimuli | changes in the environment |
| Response | a reaction to a change in the environment |
| Adaptations | characteristics that help an organism survive |
| Behavioral Adaptation | using a behavior to survive |
| Migration | moving from one environment to another |
| Hibernation | surviving the cold by sleeping all winter |
| Dormancy | a state of being completely inactive |
| Physical Adaptation | physical characteristics that help an organism survive |
| Habitat | the environment in which an organism lives |
| Blubber | a layer of protective fat |
| Extinct/Extinction | no longer in existence |
| Fossil | the remains of traces of an ancient organism |
| Population | all the members of a particular species |
| Community | all the different populations in a habitat |
| Ecosystem | nonliving factors of an environment plus the living members of the community |